On Jul 13, Yavuz Arkun wrote:
>> How come computer scientists obsess about segregating things into
> ever finer types when all the other sciences are really about
> finding unifying themes that brings together apparently disparate
> phenomena?
Use javascript for a while. First time you get 23 as the result of
adding 2 and 3 and things and you'll end up writing "unify" on a piece
of paper and then spend 4 hours burning it.
Here's another puzzle:
foo = new Array();
foo.push(1);
foo.push(23);
foo.push(345);
We now have `foo' bound to an array of three integers. If you do this,
for (var i in foo) alert("i = " + i);
you'll find that `var i in foo' iterates `i' over the indexes. Odd
but acceptable, right?
Now try this:
for (var i in foo) alert("i = " + (i+0));
(So where was that piece of paper...)
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